Karnataka: 60,000 ha of farmland being converted for nonagricultural purposes every year

[...]Stating that the Karnataka Agriculture Price Commission has prepared a report on “shift in cropping patterns in the State in a decade’, Kammardi said this report will be submitted to the State government soon.

The total area under both agricultural and horticultural crops has come down from 129.36 hectares in 2005-06 to 123.39 hectares in 2014-15.

Around 60,000 hectares of farm land are being converted for non-agricultural purposes every year, he said.

Asked if the state has seen the entry of any new crop, he said there was no new crop as such in the last decade.

However, during this period, farmers have started growing more Bt cotton and maize, said Kammardi.

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